Gigapans

A beautiful evening at the 2009 Bristol balloon fiesta saw over 90 balloons launched from Ashton Park. Great to see the piper flying again after many years. Spot the UP balloon with it's house underneath too. The tower is the camera obscura, the first panoramic viewer where you view the image projected through the peri...

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The Clifton Bridge and the first panoramic viewer, the Victorian camera obscura. Taken during this year's International Balloon Fiesta- before launching!! Shot on a Canon SX1 IS camera 150 shots, manual settings. More during the festival to follow. See the balloons over the bridge at www.gigapan.org/viewGi...

The Clifton Bridge and Observatory from Leigh Woods. The device hanging under the bridge is the inspection and maintenance cradle which runs along the bridge on the handrail. Clifton Bridge in Bristol was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to cross the River Avon at Avon Gorge. See also the ballooons over the bridge ...

Clifton Bridge spans the river Avon and connects the City of Bristol to Leigh Woods in Somerset. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed after his death in 1864. He won a competition to design a bridge here, but because the powers that be didn't believe that such a span could be built, he had to build ...

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Clifton Bridge in Bristol was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to cross the River Avon at Avon Gorge.
It was completed after his death in 1864
It is the location of the first ever bungee jump on 1st April 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DLooHqJMc
This shot is taken from one of the first panoramic viewers &...

Bristol from Dundry hill looking north towards the Bristol Channel.
I have cropped and adjusted contrast to cut through the haze. Camera is Canon SX1 IS , 125 pictures are stitched to make this picture. A little hazy still but I'm watching the visibility and will be back when Wales is crisp and clear!! See the Bridge...

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This is the earliest example in England of a circular library, which now houses reading rooms for the Bodleian Library here in Oxford
Shame the stitching didn't quite work on the roof! I will work on another version soon!

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Jaguar Guardian Eric Ramirez Bravo works with a University of Sonora student to set a motion-sensing camera to detect jaguars and other wildlife at the recently established Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora. Data collected at the jaguar reserve is being used to guide a landscape-level conservation strategy to conserve...